Archives - 21 October 2013, Monday

Well, here's a fact. The collapse of the Silk Road — the online drug buying bazaar whose alleged founder was arrested earlier this month — has not destroyed Bitcoin, the digital currency that was used on the site. In fact, the death of Bitcoin has been declared many times, and yet it ...

Bitcoin, the cryptographic peer-to-peer digital currency, has reached a new price high since the market crash in April this year. Over the two weeks to 21 October, the value of one bitcoin rose by almost $60, and on Tuesday hit a high of $197.40 at the largest exchange , Mt Gox. An es...

This is a real thing that I read. (Amazon) The first line of the Kindle erotica single King of Bitcoin is "Bitcoins? Buttcoins more like!" I could (and probably should) have stopped reading there. But once The Switch team discovered that Bitcoin erotica existed, we felt it was our jou...

Bitcoin explained Luca Matteis - Oct 20, 2013 Bitcoin is essentially a digital way to send and receive money. Numbers. But where are these numbers stored? If I receive 20 bitcoins from a user, and I turn off my computer, when I turn it back on, these coins are still retrievable from t...

The price of bitcoin is currently at its highest level since 10th of April, when the value experienced a massive surge amidst the financial crisis in Cyprus. In fact, there have only been two days in the history of the digital currency that the price of bitcoin has been higher than th...

Bitcoin, the coin of the realm on the website Silk Road, is cash for the Internet. Bitcoin acts as an online virtual currency that operates by person-to-person exchange. There's no bank or a central monetary authority such as the Federal Reserve to regulate it or a government to issue...

While the move to accept the pseudo-anonymous crypto-currency in malware-ransom payments is certainly new, it also appears – in this specific case – to have not worked thus far. Ortega examined the transaction record of the Bitcoin address listed in the scammer’s malware interface, fi...

Bubbles burst . Ponzi schemes stole millions . Black markets were seized . Despite it all, the resilient digital currency known as Bitcoin has boomed in 2013. As Bitcoin rallied to $180 this weekend, the currency crossed the major milestone of $2 billion in total market value for the ...

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Bitcoin, the cryptographic peer-to-peer digital currency, has reached a new price high since the market crash in April this year. Over the two weeks to 21 October, the value of one bitcoin rose by almost $60, and on Tuesday hit a high of $197.40 at the largest exchange , Mt Gox. An es...

Will Ben Affleck be the one to make bitcoin a household name? The director’s chair has yet to be decided, but one thing’s for sure, alternative currency’s dirty laundry is headed to the big screen, and it could end up in highly acclaimed hands. Deadline reported on 16th October that 2...

We’re big fans of reddit , and have long wanted an easy way to send people bitcoin “tips” through the site. When someone makes a particularly educational/funny/awesome comment, it would be great to send them a tiny amount of bitcoin - both to reward them and help spread awareness abou...

I was raised in the UK, so it’s perhaps not surprising that I used to feel that any currency without a picture of the Queen on it was not real money. Now having lived in the Eurozone and America, I have liberalised, but I seriously question whether our customers need a currency like B...

When Ross William Ulbricht was arrested in September for running the online drug store (and we don't mean the kind of drugs you get for a slight cold), Silk Road, eyebrows were raised among the general public, not just at how blazen the 29-year-old Texan's actions were, but also about...

The digital peer-to-peer currency Bitcoin has seen its price bounce back after a market crash in April. The price on Mt. Gox, the largest exchange, hit $197.40 recently, and current price estimates put it at $182.74, according to The Guardian. Bitcoin has been in the news recently aft...

This is a real thing that I read. (Amazon) The first line of the Kindle erotica single King of Bitcoin is "Bitcoins? Buttcoins more like!" I could (and probably should) have stopped reading there. But once The Switch team discovered that Bitcoin erotica existed, we felt it was our jou...

I was raised in the UK, so it’s perhaps not surprising that I used to feel that any currency without a picture of the Queen on it was not real money. Now having lived in the Eurozone and America, I have liberalised, but I seriously question whether our customers need a currency like B...

Bitcoin, the cryptographic peer-to-peer digital currency, has reached a new price high since the market crash in April this year. Over the two weeks to 21 October, the value of one bitcoin rose by almost $60, and on Tuesday hit a high of $197.40 at the largest exchange , Mt Gox. An es...

Source: Business Insider ﻿ Well, here’s a fact. The collapse of the Silk Road — the online drug buying bazaar whose alleged founder was arrested earlier this month — has not destroyed Bitcoin, the digital currency that was used on the site. In fact, the death of Bitcoin has been decla...

I was raised in the UK, so it’s perhaps not surprising that I used to feel that any currency without a picture of the Queen on it was not real money. Now having lived in the Eurozone and America, I have liberalised, but I seriously question whether our customers need a currency like B...

Breaking: The Blockchain has Forked Developers are currently holding an emergency discussion in #bitcoin-dev to determine a way forward. The gist of the problem is that 0.7 a... Bitcoin in 2012: By the Numbers Our humble digital currency continued to show resilience in 2012, growing i...